Don Juan Honduras | 85% Cacao Bar

Intense, velvety, marshmallow, vanilla, plum, clove, sweet tobacco

Don Juan and his son Ivan cultivate their exquisite criollo cacao alongside coffee trees, passion fruit, bananas, and oranges. At 900 meters above sea level near the village of Palmichal in the renowned Comayagua Department, Honduras, Finca Don Juan boasts ideal conditions for delicious cacao. At 85 years old, Don Juan has been farming for many decades. Originally, he-- and eventually his son Ivan joined him-- grew fruits and coffee for local sale. With climate change came hotter, more volatile seasons, and the true criollos grown on the farm began to thrive, out-producing coffee. 

Finca Don Juan is an exquisite, traceable cacao sourced through friends Efren and Chad at Atucún Heritage Cacao, a specialized Comayagua-based exporter focused on sustainable polyculture cacao. As a source with integrity, Atucún is a vital partner of Numinous.

Ingredients:

Cacao, cane sugar

A Note on Allergens and Additives:

We stone grind our traceable cacao in machines also making delicious things from tree nuts. Apart from that, we do not use emulsifiers like lecithins, or other additives like vanilla.

When we add sugar, it is intentional. We only use traceable, raw, organically and regeneratively grown cane sugar. We add sugar for the purpose of attenuating the innate power of cacao to meet our limited palates, increasing our receptivity to the delight in every morsel.

A Note on Shipping:

Shipping is not a profit center for us, and our goal is to pass along the lowest possible rate. That being said, shipping just one bar has outsized costs. We recommend our 3-bar or 6-bar boxes for the best value on shipping.